Week 7 Another busy week. Aside form teaching we had Parent Teacher meetings/Visit by HRH the Tongan Princess, who is also the Tongan High Commissioner in Australia and a play preformance. That was all on one day. To further create a full day the play we have been working on in Form 1 English we performed not only for the boy's parents but for HRH Angelique also. Parent Teacher meetings were held in the Hall and ran from 5pm until 8:30pm with a short break for the play performance, but an early finish due to a black out. Ten minutes per family was a long time after only 5 real weeks of teaching and my limited (zero) Tongan language skills. But the view from the venue was terrific. Te sun sets over the staff cottages on the farm road. Talking to parents as the sun set and coolness descended was quite a pleasant finish to the day.
School is actually about to start. The boys are all here in situ but classes actually commence Wednesday. The boys return early to settle and it is their responsibility to establish the facilities, resources for the term. They are currently on full clean up mode. Unfortunately they weren't here when the sheep escaped on Sunday and decided to visit and demolish my flowers. Tonight we have an introductory evening with the parents and boys of the new year 1 (year 7 in Australia) International class. That's our responsibility. First visit to 'Tonga' Bunnings, pic to follow. Meals are ok we are getting stacks of deliveries of fresh fruit, vegetables, milk, eggs etc, had duck egg scrambled eggs for dinner, we'd been out and had a big lunch.
Beautiful one day... Great pics. Hope your leaks are fixed quickly.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the holidays, we'll miss you xo